Feminist History in Canada
New Essays on Women, Gender, Work, and Nation
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
Feminist History in Canada
New Essays on Women, Gender, Work, and Nation
302 pages | © 2013
Table of Contents
Introduction: Productive Pasts and New Directions / Catherine Carstairs and Nancy Janovicek
1 James Douglas, Amelia Connolly, and the Writing of Gender and Women’s History / Adele Perry
2 Using Diaries to Explore the Shared Worlds of Family and Community in Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick / Gail G. Campbell
3 “A Little Offensive and Defensive Alliance”: Friendship, Professional Networks, and International Child Welfare Policy / Karen Balcom
4 "The Necessity of Going": Julia Grace Wales’s Transnational Life as a Peace Activist and a Scholar / Lorna R. McLean
5 Feminist Ideals and Everyday Life: Professional Women’s Feminism at Victoria College, University of Toronto, 1900-40 / Catherine Gidney
6 Singleness and Choice: The Impact of Age, Time, and Class on Three Female Youth Diarists in 1930s Canada / Heidi MacDonald
7 Sexual Spectacles: Saleswomen in Canadian Department Store Magazines between 1920 and 1950 / Donica Belisle
8 Gender and the Career Paths of Professors in the École de service social at Laval University, 1943-72 / Hélène Charron
9 Teaching June Cleaver, Being Hazel Chong: An Oral History of Gender, Race, and National "Character" / Kristina R. Llewellyn
10 The Ontario Women’s History Network: Linking Teachers, Scholars, and History Communities / Rose Fine-Meyer
11 Fighting the “Corset of Victorian Prejudice”: Women’s Activism in Canadian Engineering during the Pioneering
Decades (1970s-80s) / Ruby Heap
12 Ad Hoc Activism: Feminist Citizens Respond to the Meech Lake Accord in New Brunswick / Anthony S.C. Hampton
13 To Help and to Serve: Women’s Career Paths in the Domestic Services Sector in Quebec City, 1960-2009 / Catherine Charron
Contributors; Index
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